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It really shouldn’t come as any surprise in a world in which men not only become women, but become the first female admirals and champion female swimmers, but it is just another step down the road of discarding our humanity altogether and becoming artificial beings of our own design, with consequences no one can foresee. Short men are now getting their legs artificially lengthened so that they magically grow several inches taller and get all the girls who didn’t look at them until they had to look up to them. GQ ran a lavish 4,500-word piece on this nauseating phenomenon Thursday. My PJM colleague Jeff Reynolds alerted me to the fact that so did South Park, a couple of years ago. Reality has become an absurdist satirical cartoon.
The GQ article is full of short guys who have internalized Randy Newman’s infamous dictum that “short people got no reason to live,” and have suffered for their lack of stature. One guy “never really thought of himself as short until a girl he had ‘a super big crush on, like, roasted me for it’ in college.” That incident led to “a deep insecurity that ultimately prompted him to get his femurs done in February. Now, after spending the last three months alone in his apartment eating delivery food, he’s five nine,” three inches taller than he was in May.
Another newly tall man is, GQ tells us, “something of a player.” However, “he always thought that his batting average with women could be better,” and now, three inches taller than he used to be, he thinks he be more appealing to the babes, who presumably will not notice that his new height is all in his legs, which are freakishly long compared to his torso and arms.
A third guy appears to have gotten the surgery because he was ignored when trying to order a drink. “I’d go to a bar and literally try to order a drink. Some freaking goon, standing a head taller than me, comes over behind me. And the bartender looks up to him, like, ‘What can I get you?’ I’m like, ‘Motherf***er, I’m right here!’”
The surgery involves (and here’s the nauseating part) getting one’s legs broken and artificially lengthened with instruments that hold the broken pieces apart for months so that the bone grows longer. Some of those who get it are piling fantasy upon fantasy: they’re “trans men, who often just want that extra stature to feel more like themselves.” Another tall fellow summed up the guiding reasoning behind why everyone gets this surgery: “I noticed that taller people just seem to have it easier. The world seems to bend for them.”
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fadeye@yahoo.com says
JFC, poor little ellen paige will NEVER get out of surgery, LOL!!!
Infidel says
Hey, I could use that. I consider myself 5’7″, but my measurement at the clinic said I was 5’6″, and others claim I am 5’5″. Maybe not stilts, but if I could get shoes w/ soles that were above an inch thick, I could possibly pull that off 😈
Infidel says
Also, elongating oneself ain’t helpful, since it would make it harder to touch one’s toes. Instead, they should try and elongate the mid-section, so that the person not only is taller but also fitter: the belly-fat can hopefully be ‘elongated’ and spread out 😈
Infidel says
Also, elongating one’s legs….
somehistory says
these people are mentally ill and the doctors are making money off their illness in a way that is akin to a psychologist or psychiatrist having an intimate relationship with a woman needing emotional direction .It’s malpractice to do injury to a person and this is injury.
Next, will be brain transplants. the whole world has gone mad…leaving all ethics and morals in the dust.
James Lincoln says
somehistory says,
“these people are mentally ill and the doctors are making money off their illness in a way that is akin to a psychologist or psychiatrist having an intimate relationship with a woman needing emotional direction .It’s malpractice to do injury to a person and this is injury.”
Yes.
From a physician board certified in two specialties – and an undergraduate degree in psychology.
gravenimage says
Thank you, James. Good to hear that from a physician.
somehistory says
thank you, Dr. Lincoln. I remember michael jackson having surgery to make him appear white until he hardly had a nose left. And there have been women who’ve had countless surgeries and implants, when what they all needed was counseling to help them accept themselves as they were.
gravenimage says
Insanity on Stilts: Now Short Guys Are Becoming Trans Tall
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This *can’t* be healthy. Nor is enlongating someone’s femurs proportional–this would only really make you look taller from a distance–up close it would just make you look weirdly disproportionate.
I am quite short–5″1′–and my husband and I have a tongue-in-cheek running joke about how short I am. But really, most of the time I don’t care. Maybe when I’m trying to reach for the top shelf in a shop–otherwise, not so much. Not worth spending a large amount of money to mutilate myself.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage says,
“I am quite short–5″1′…”
All I can say is that you stand “mighty tall” in the anti-jihad effort!
Mary C says
What will be next? Trans-age? Trans-ethnic? Trans-race? Or even trans-species?